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ArticleACS chemical biology2022

DRUG-seq Provides Unbiased Biological Activity Readouts for Neuroscience Drug Discovery.

Jingyao Li, Daniel J Ho, Martin Henault, Chian Yang, Marilisa Neri, Robin Ge, Steffen Renner, Leandra Mansur, Alicia Lindeman, Brian Kelly and 11 more

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Article in ACS chemical biology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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21 authors.

Jingyao Li
Daniel J Ho
Martin Henault
Chian Yang
Marilisa NeriChemical and Biological Therapeutics, Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Basel, 4056, Switzerland.
Robin Ge
Steffen RennerChemical and Biological Therapeutics, Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Basel, 4056, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-0720-5629
Leandra Mansur
Alicia Lindeman
Brian Kelly
Tayfun Tumkaya
Xiaoling Ke
Gilberto Soler-Llavina
Gopi Shanker
Carsten Russ
Marc Hild
Caroline Gubser KellerChemical and Biological Therapeutics, Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Basel, 4056, Switzerland.
Jeremy L Jenkins
Kathleen A Worringer
Frederic D Sigoillot

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Unbiased transcriptomic RNA-seq data has provided deep insights into biological processes. However, its impact in drug discovery has been narrow given high costs and low throughput. Proof-of-concept studies with Digital RNA with pertUrbation of Genes (DRUG)-seq demonstrated the potential to address this gap. We extended the DRUG-seq platform by subjecting it to rigorous testing and by adding an open-source analysis pipeline. The results demonstrate high reproducibility and ability to resolve the mechanism(s) of action for a diverse set of compounds. Furthermore, we demonstrate how this data can be incorporated into a drug discovery project aiming to develop therapeutics for schizophrenia using human stem cell-derived neurons. We identified both an on-target activation signature, induced by a set of chemically distinct positive allosteric modulators of the

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Drug DiscoveryTranscriptomeHumansReproducibility of ResultsRNASequence Analysis, RNARNA

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PMCPMC9207813

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